Shredder-tadpole facilitation of leaf litter decomposition in a tropical stream

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2573-2580

  Iwai, Noriko ^a,b   Pearson, Richard G ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisocentropus kirramus; Ecosystem functioning; Litoria genimaculata; Species interaction; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ANISOCENTROPUS KIRRAMUS; INVERTEBRATA; LITORIA GENIMACULATA;

EID: 70449562311     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02267.x     Document Type: Article

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